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05
October 2006
Lily
Allen Wins Web Music
Award
Pop
star Lily
Allen
has triumphed at the
fifth annual Digital
Music Awards.
Lily
Allen beat Sandi Thom to
take the best pop artist
prize at the award
ceremony in
London.
Muse
collected two trophies -
beating Hard-Fi and
Kasabian to best rock
artist and their fansite
was named best
unofficial music
site.
Thom
Yorke scooped two
awards. Other winners
included Lemar, The
White Stripes and Peter
Gabriel.
Radiohead
frontman Yorke took the
awards for best use of
mobile and best artist
campaign for his solo
album The Eraser. It was
released in the UK in
July and was nominated
for a Mercury Music
Prize.
Mobo
winner Lemar, whose big
break came on the BBC
talent programme Fame
Academy in 2002, scooped
best urban artist. He
beat Nate James, Plan B,
Sway and The
Streets.
Members
of the public had a say
on who won 13 of the 19
awards, with 500,000
people voting online. A
panel of six judges
chose the remaining
award
winners.
The
Digital Music Awards
have become increasingly
popular as more bands
and artists rely on the
internet and mobile
phones to promote
themselves.
Lily
Allen had thousands of
so-called "friends" on
the networking site
MySpace before her first
single was even
released.
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